That essay—or perhaps its rebuttal—should be titled “Culture is Not About Consumption”. Making heavy implicit use of an assumed dichotomy between production and consumption, it’s a good example of the sort of Straw-Economist reasoning that plagues the LessWrongosphere.
That essay—or perhaps its rebuttal—should be titled “Culture is Not About Consumption”. Making heavy implicit use of an assumed dichotomy between production and consumption, it’s a good example of the sort of Straw-Economist reasoning that plagues the LessWrongosphere.